Heidegger famously draws a distinction between the present-at-hand and the ready-to-hand, also sometimes known as the distinction between occurents and equipment. Some entities are ready-to-hand: they are tools, objects of use, cultural products, things of value and significance. Examples include hammers, doorknobs, books, can-openers, and pinball machines. Some entities are present-at-hand: am...

In ‘When Does a Human Being Die?’ Schofield et al. present a definition of death focused on the ‘final denouement’ of human beings as biological organisms. Their view is such that the moment of death occurs ‘when the last process in the collection of bodily processes that maintain homoeostasis finally cease[s]’. Whilst this definition avoids certain conceptual problems there are difficulties wi...

Purpose: The objective of the work is to assess whether Organic Model a management model that positively impacts environment organizations and facilitates their survival. This considers all organisms actively integrated by human beings, become own entities maintain similar structure as reflection these. holistic vision being and, consequently, organizations, from which starts, provides company ...

SOME of the parasites that occur in animals also attack people. Some have to develop in an animal or in two different animals before they can invade human beings. Man then is the definitive, or final, host. He usually acquires the parasites by eating the intermediate animal hosts or (if they are small insects) by swallowing them accidentally. For some parasites, human beings are the intermediat...

Abstract This paper argues that many conflicts regarding the return of wolf to thoroughly humanized and densely populated cultural landscapes Western Europe rest on dualistic idea culture nature are two strictly separated realms reality, assumption wild animals primarily passive beings without proper agency. Once we acknowledge wolves as with agency whom share landscape, come see challenge coex...